The first Christians lived in a society where they were a small, persecuted minority. It would have been foolish to advocate the emancipation of slaves and encourage them to rebel against their masters. Jesus does not preach violent revolution!But what has been written in Scripture concerning slaves being subject to their Masters. This is no longer taught today.
So slavery was accepted at one time, but not now.The first Christians lived in a society where they were a small, persecuted minority. It would have been foolish to advocate the emancipation of slaves and encourage them to rebel against their masters. Jesus does not preach violent revolution!
No, as the morality of the death penalty might be objectively wrong - but our apprehension of this has changed over the centuries.Is it then not the case that the morality of the death penalty, whether it is right or wrong, depends on the time and place that this is being considered and is therefore subjective?
It seems like that would deny the teaching authority of the Catholic Church.No, as the morality of the death penalty might be objectively wrong - but our apprehension of this has changed over the centuries.
It’s like how gravity has always existed, despite what people over the centuries may think of the cause of falling objects.
Well, obviously the Church has changed its stance on a variety of things over the ages - (as it should have)It seems like that would deny the teaching authority of the Catholic Church.
At one time the Church taught that capital punishment was OK.
However, now we read in many places, such as for example, from the bishops of Florida, that capital punishment is wrong. “Killing someone because they killed diminishes respect for life and promotes a culture of violence and vengeance,”
Slavery was not accepted but tolerated as a lesser evil than encouraging violent revolution which was the only alternative in those circumstances.The first Christians lived in a society where they were a small, persecuted minority. It would have been foolish to advocate the emancipation of slaves and encourage them to rebel against their masters. Jesus does not preach violent revolution!
The Church has always taught that our ultimate authority is our conscience…It seems like that would deny the teaching authority of the Catholic Church.
At one time the Church taught that capital punishment was OK.
However, now we read in many places, such as for example, from the bishops of Florida, that capital punishment is wrong. “Killing someone because they killed diminishes respect for life and promotes a culture of violence and vengeance,”
then since one man’s colnscience may differ from another’s, why does not that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that morality is subjective?The Church has always taught that our ultimate authority is our conscience…
It has also taught that we are held accountable for our actions and for properly forming our conscience.then since one man’s colnscience may differ from another’s, why does not that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that morality is subjective?
? That seems like a weak argument when you consider the fact that black Africans were rounded up, beaten, and tied up on boats taking them across the Atlantic Ocean so that Catholic priests (and others of course) could hold them as slaves in the South.Slavery was not accepted but tolerated as a lesser evil than encouraging violent revolution which was the only alternative in those circumstances.